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Game day!<\/p>\n

In about nine hours we\u2019ll have a new sixth grade city champion in kickball, and M\u2019s team just might be that team. It\u2019s a perfect day for kickball, too! It\u2019s going to be hot and clear, which is ideal for heating the asphalt to well over 100\u00b0 – so everyone – players, coaches, and families watching – is all sweating uncontrollably. I especially enjoy it when my sweat drips onto the scorebook and smears my notations.<\/p>\n

Our coach went down to the semifinal game yesterday to do some scouting. We don\u2019t have a final score yet, but our nemesis St. B\u2019s was way ahead when she left, so we\u2019re assuming they will be the opponent. She said they\u2019re really good, but if our girls play defense the way they\u2019re capable, we can absolutely win the game.<\/p>\n

The girls all seem excited for the game. We\u2019ll see if they\u2019re still loose after school, or if any of them are as nervous as us parents will be. We tried to sneak in two practices, but as has been the story of this fall in Indy, Friday\u2019s was interrupted by heavy rains that caused flash flooding. So we retired to Dairy Queen, which is a solid backup plan.<\/p>\n

I got a good distraction from my nerves yesterday: for the first time in my life, I won tickets to a concert from a radio station give-away. I\u2019m super, duper excited for the show I get to see, but that\u2019s a whole other post that you\u2019ll get to read tomorrow.<\/p>\n

One other quick kickball story before I go try to distract myself from thinking about tonight\u2019s game. My girls and I were out practicing kicking, pitching, and fielding in the cul-de-sac a couple nights ago. We were using a really old kickball that was worn down to a single shade of orange.[1]<\/a> A neighbor down the street was walking his dog after work and saw us. A few minutes later he strolled over carrying a yellow playground ball.
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\u201cIf you want to play kickball, you should use this,\u201d he said as he offered the bouncy-ball to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, this IS<\/em> a kickball, R!\u201d I said as I passed him our Mikasa. \u201cAt least it is if you go to Catholic school in Indianapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n

I explained how the girls play for St. P\u2019s, how I\u2019m the coordinator, and my back-story of insulting S on our first date when she told me kickball was one of the sports she played growing up. He was flabbergasted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that was a basketball! They really play with this? Do people get hurt? It\u2019s so hard!\u201d<\/p>\n

My job is not just putting teams together, recruiting coaches, and issuing jerseys. Also I am an ambassador for the sport, spreading the truth of CYO kickball to the ignorant masses.<\/p>\n

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  1. \nRemember, CYO kickball uses the Mikasa S3030 kickball, which is hard like a basketball and checkered like a soccer ball.  ↩<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Game day! In about nine hours we\u2019ll have a new sixth grade city champion in kickball, and M\u2019s team just might be that team. It\u2019s a perfect day for kickball, too! It\u2019s going to be hot and clear, which is ideal for heating the asphalt to well over 100\u00b0 – so everyone – players, coaches, and families watching – is all sweating uncontrollably. I especially enjoy it when my sweat drips onto the scorebook and smears my notations. Our coach went down to the semifinal game yesterday to do some scouting. We don\u2019t have a final score yet, but our nemesis St. B\u2019s was way ahead when she left, so we\u2019re assuming they will be the opponent. She said they\u2019re really good, but if our girls play defense the way they\u2019re capable, we can absolutely win the game. The girls all seem excited for the game. We\u2019ll see if they\u2019re still loose after school, or if any of them are as nervous as us parents will be. We tried to sneak in two practices, but as has been the story of this fall in Indy, Friday\u2019s was interrupted by heavy rains that caused flash flooding. So we retired to Dairy Queen, which is a solid backup plan. I got a good distraction from my nerves yesterday: for the first time in my life, I won tickets to a concert from a radio station give-away. I\u2019m super, duper excited for the show I get to see, but that\u2019s a whole other post that you\u2019ll get to read tomorrow. One other quick kickball story before I go try to distract myself from thinking about tonight\u2019s game. My girls and I were out practicing kicking, pitching, and fielding in the cul-de-sac a couple nights ago. We were using a really old kickball that was worn down to a single shade of orange.[1] A neighbor down the street was walking his dog after work and saw us. A few minutes later he strolled over carrying a yellow playground ball. \u201cIf you want to play kickball, you should use this,\u201d he said as he offered the bouncy-ball to me. \u201cAh, this IS a kickball, R!\u201d I said as I passed him our Mikasa. \u201cAt least it is if you go to Catholic school in Indianapolis.\u201d I explained how the girls play for St. P\u2019s, how I\u2019m the coordinator, and my back-story of insulting S on our first date when she told me kickball was one of the sports she played growing up. He was flabbergasted. \u201cI thought that was a basketball! They really play with this? Do people get hurt? It\u2019s so hard!\u201d My job is not just putting teams together, recruiting coaches, and issuing jerseys. Also I am an ambassador for the sport, spreading the truth of CYO kickball to the ignorant masses. Remember, CYO kickball uses the Mikasa S3030 kickball, which is hard like a basketball and checkered like a soccer ball.  ↩<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,30],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kickball","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13759,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/13759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}